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- 3881: William Shakespeare
- ... and well-respected in the community. Eventually, John held a position in the public office. (Bender 13). Subsequently, John Shakespeare experienced financial problems and lost his wealth and governing positions. This, of course, had a big effect on the whole family. William was the third of eight children. The older siblings were sistets Joan, born in 1558 and Margaret in 1562. Both of William s older sisters died very young. (Bender ...
- 3882: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- ... rest of the way to Stockholm so he went on. He arrived in Stockholm on December 9. The awards assemblies took place at seven o clock the next evening. The event was held at the Big Hall of the Musikaliska Akademien (the Music Academy). Along with Roentgen, Chemist J. H. van t Hoff of Berlin, Germany won a prize for his work on osmosis, Professor of Medicine Dr. E. A. von ...
- 3883: Walt Whitman
- ... for the reader, The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches, The deacons are ordain'd with cross'd hands at the altar, The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel, The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a first-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye, (269-272). Upon first reading, taken literally, this passage seems sporadic and confusing ...
- 3884: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... and exhausted. Wilsons' real heart was in peace. He insisted on going to the Paris Peace conference himself, where he was greeted by European crowds cheering wildly. He and three other men, known as the Big Four, including Premier Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain, and Premier Georges Clemenceau of France drew up the Treaty of Versailles, based on Wilsons Fourteen Point address. Aspirations of world ...
- 3885: William Faulkner
- ... All we know is that she lives in Jefferson, but we can assume it is in the South for a couple of reasons. The first clue is the style of her house. It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies (Faulkner Rose 502). Another dead giveaway is that Miss Emily had ...
- 3886: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... banks, farm organizations, railroads, and state, county, and city governments money to stimulate economic activity and employment. His opponents criticized him for this "trickle down" theory, based on the idea that if the government aided big business at the top of the nation's financial structure, business would then create more jobs and relieve unemployment at the bottom. Yet, he inaugurated a new policy of government assistance to those in need ...
- 3887: Robert Boyle
- ... to be for so long, an experimental scientist.(Sootin pp.37-38) He continued at Oxford and received an Honored M.D., and later was accepted to be a member of the Royal Society, a big scientific group. It was a great honor to be a part of that scientific group.(Salzberg p.161) Arguably, Robert Boyle is most famous for Boyle's Law. Boyles's Law, in formula form, is ...
- 3888: Robert Hunter
- ... St. Stephen" Say you'll come back when you can Whenever your airplane happens to land --"Cosmic Charley" In both instances there are drifting characters and no clearly defined ideas. Neither Charley nor Stephen have big questions or answers, but both are seekers in the quest for knowledge. The final transcendental theme that Hunter uses is "home". There are three main character types in his home poems: Those seeking their homes ...
- 3889: Richard Milhous Nixon
- ... was little known nationally and had a reputation as a playboy inside Washington circles. Kennedy, however, took advantage of modern campaigning techniques, which employed the television more than personal contact, and he was given a big push by the first-ever televised presidential debates. The healthy, attractive, charming Kennedy came off as strong, confident, and in control, while Nixon, who refused to wear make-up, looked haggard, almost ghost-like. The ...
- 3890: Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
- ... and relax in the sun and write music the way he wanted to and for no one but himself. But he was unhappy because the only songs he could write would not suffice for the big screen. He was making plans to return to New York after a series of performances when tragedy struck (Ewen 291). In February, 1937 George was giving a recital in Los Angeles when suddenly his mind ...
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